{"id":2937,"date":"2011-12-22T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/12\/christmas-time-is-here.html"},"modified":"2011-12-22T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:39:00","slug":"christmas-time-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/12\/christmas-time-is-here.html","title":{"rendered":"Christmas time is here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Happiness and cheer.\u00a0 Therefore I can\u2019t account for how much time I\u2019ll have between now and the end of the year for blogging.\u00a0 With my wife losing her\u00a0job due to cutbacks\u00a0and us going straight back to survival mode sans income once again, much will be happening over the next few weeks.\u00a0 A shame, since readership has really taken off.\u00a0 I appreciate everyone who stops by for a visit.\u00a0 Still not many comments, but then perhaps once I\u2019ve said my piece, there\u2019s nothing left to say!\u00a0 Or it could be that folks can\u2019t figure out what the heck I\u2019m saying in the first place.\u00a0 Either way, thanks for stopping, and a blessed Christmas and merry holiday season to everyone.\u00a0 I hope everyone will keep coming back, and I\u2019ll try to add things as they come by.\u00a0 In the meantime, enjoy this picture taken at the Pontifical College Josephinum, just down the street from where we live, and an early location that helped stoke those embers of religious investigation in my later college days.<\/p>\n

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